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   Gert.Andersen!2.230.150.0@filegate. to J.O. Aho   
   Re: Gentoo latest (kernel-2.6.38-gentoo-   
   13 Jul 11 17:42:38   
   
   Hello J.O.!   
      
   Thu Jun 30 2011, J.O. Aho wrote to Gert.Andersen!2.230.150.150@filegat:   
      
    JA>On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Gert.Andersen!2.230.150.150@filegate.net wrote:   
      
      
    JA>Fist of all I have to say, I don't understand what you ment with your   
    JA>post.   
      
   It was that time and now is the things been fixed to working again.   
      
    >> But why shall gentoo with the last kernel 2.6.38-r6 be so difficult and   
    >> buggy in its install.   
    >> If you have a older kernel in work and just opdate kernel to 2.6.28-r6   
    >> is there   
    >> no problem in it. But do a install from livecd id it very hard to do.   
      
    JA>genkernel has a big history of not working and I haven't used it more   
    JA>than once or twice before I decided to make all manually instead. I   
    JA>don't use initramfs, instead I compile all the driver into the kernel   
    JA>which I need during boot up (usually not much more than drivers for   
    JA>disk, nic only if I need to use tftp/nfs for root file system).   
      
    JA>For boot loader there are options other than grub/grub2, which has been   
    JA>working fine for a lot of people, for example lilo.   
      
   Brug is more friendly in correction if it not working, where lilo is more hard   
   to make corrected as I know.   
      
      
     Take care,   
               Gert   
      
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